vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-7855: NTP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 7, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 18, 2026

Description

The decodenetnum function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a 6 or mode 7 packet containing a long data value.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-ntp
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